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Outer Wilds continues to unsettle me and I'm now afraid of becoming unmoored from the planet.

and Citizen Cane is one of the most celebrated movies of all time because it represents the shift away from spectacle and novelty to serious art. I love TV, I think Breaking Bad is great, and I'm excited by the direction that TV shows seem to be going, but I don't think that Breaking Bad or any long running TV show can really compete with the best of film in terms of nuance and storytelling. When a show is spread over so many hours it is way too easy to see the seams of the narrative, the transitions between discrete conflicts, the inconsistencies, the repetition, etc. There is just too much going on over the time it takes to produce a show like Breaking Bad for it to match the minute to minute quality of something like Whiplash. Also, there are a lot of stories you just can't tell on TV. You can't make a TV show like Inside Llewyn Davis, about being the guy who wasn't Bob Dylan. The narrative is worth exploring (certainly because there is so little honest to god media about true failure), but unlike a hero's quest, it can't be stretched indefinitely. I can't even imagine a TV show that is as universal and all encompassing as something like Synecdoche, New York, although I would love to see it. Of course it's all a matter of taste, but even if Breaking Bad can rival the best movies of the last 10 years, there aren't that many Breaking Bads out there.

This top 100 list makes me appreciate other top 100 lists more.

Marvel movies are trash, where do I collect my Oscar?

Finally saw it, the movie was a lot more nihilistic than I expected. It invoked a lot of real issues with Joker's backstory but provided very little meaningful commentary on said issues. It was definitely a strange movie for a strange time. I wouldn't be surprised in Phoenix got an Oscar for it, he put on one hell of a show and has been waiting his turn long enough.

Is this game challenging?

Epic games store good, Steam, also good.

I'm unreasonably upset that Blizzard didn't directly post their statement to reddit so it could usurp Pride and Accomplishment as the most downvoted post of all time.

That's more of a stretch than when Blizzard said China had no influence over their decision.

They would've been better served saying nothing.

I love seeing games like this succeed. I really like when these cheaper games give a short and excellent experience rather than an endlessly mediocre one. This definitely joins my list of games for people who think they don't like games along with Donut County, A Short Hike, and What Remains of Edith Finch, among others.

Dark horse nomination for Cadence of Hyrule.

Microsoft has been putting out some great devices recently. I got a surface book 2 about a year ago and have been really impressed with it.

The people we least want to misinterpret the movie are the people most likely to do so.

I'm willing to forgive Epic their exclusivity deals since it's pretty clear they are bringing games to the PC that may otherwise have never received ports like Tetris Effect and the Quantic Dream games.

I just played through the main mode of the game and it completely fell flat for me. I'll get the good out of the way, visually the game is spectacular although I wish there was a little more variety to the environments and choreography. The falling out of a window sequence as shown in the trailer was a neat visual metaphor but it happens at the beginning of the game and there isn't much more like it throughout the rest of the game. That is more or less the only good thing I have to say about the game. Now for the mediocre, I played the game on a controller and everything felt so floaty and imprecise that the game became frustrating. Along with the sloppy controls (which probably are a lot better on an iPad or something) the gameplay itself is dull. The game mechanics aren't all that bad but at no point did I feel like what I was doing on the screen interacted meaningfully with the music, I never felt any of the flow that makes rhythm games so entrancing. Finally, the music was a letdown. The majority of the levels are 1-2 minutes and are just a repetitive beat with little in the way of melody and no lyrics or variety. After each level you're briefly kicked back to a menu so any momentum that the filler levels might have contributed to the game as a whole is lost (although post-game there is an album select mode that plays straight through without kicking you to the menu, which would be nice if the game was worth playing again). There are a few more fleshed out songs that play during what amount to boss levels, unfortunately the best of these songs is in the trailer and some of them are as forgettable as the filler levels. For me, two moments really stood out in the game, the first was the level with the song from the trailer because the song was good, and the second was the closest the game came to being engaging, a sequence where the music snaps between two different realities ala Titanfall 2. Overall, the game was a kind of cool audiovisual experience but it failed as a rhythm game. It is easy to see how much effort went into the game but it's hard not to be disappointed that so much of the finished product was forgettable.

I just went from not really knowing or caring what this game was to being unreasonably excited to play it.

They had me at Annapurna Interactive.

It's a more open, more exploration focused metal gear style stealth action game in which the player treads through multiple planes of existence simultaneously. I'm a genius visionary who knows more about Death Stranding than Kojima, ask me literally anything about it.

I'm ready for some DP.

So this movie is reskinned Taxi Driver?

The trailers look really good but this is a movie that could easily overplay its hand.

I agree that andromeda and halo 4 are worse than the games I mentioned, but one of those is a spinoff and the other is a new dev and at the time of release reviewers had greater reasons to be skeptical of halo 4 and andromeda than they did of ME3 and reach. I think the reviews of the games I mentioned were highly influenced by hype and even within weeks of release the reception for them had cooled.

I would argue that Bioshock infinite, Mass effect 3, Brawl, Sunshine, and Halo Reach are not contenders for being the most overrated games of all time because they are widely held to be the worst/most disappointing games in their series'.

Goldeneye sucked then and it sucks now.